Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 kilometres
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The men's 100 kilometres was one of seven track cycling
Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using track bicycles....

 events on the Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics
At the 1908 Summer Olympics, seven track cycling events were contested, all for men only. The weather was poor, flooding the track on occasion. The track was 660 yards long ; some events used full laps of the track; the others used metric distances.-Medal summary:-Medal...

 programme. Its distance was the longest of the individual event distances. The time limit for the race was 3 hours and 15 minutes. A challenge cup was presented by the Prince of Wales to the winner.

Semifinal 1

Place Cyclist Nation Time
1 Andrew Hansson  2:50:21.4
2 G. C. Lutz  Unknown
3 Sydney Bailey  Unknown
4 Pierre Texier  Unknown
5 J. H. Bishop  Unknown
6 D. C. Robertson  Unknown
7-14 William Anderson  Unknown
Alwin Boldt  Unknown
François Bonnet  Unknown
Georgius Damen  Unknown
Gerard Bosch van Drakenstein  Unknown
André Lepere  Unknown
Harry Mussen  Unknown
J. Norman  Unknown
Rudolf Katzer
Rudolf Katzer
Rudolf Katzer was a German track cycling racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.With his teammates Karl Neumer, Max Götze and Hermann Martens he won the silver medal in the team pursuit. He also competed in the 660 yards sprint, in the 5000 metres race, and in the 20 kilometres race, but...

 
Did not finish
Frederick McCarthy  Did not finish
Ioannis Santorinaios  Did not finish

Semifinal 2

Place Cyclist Nation Time
1 Leon Meredith  2:43:15.4
2 Charles Bartlett
Charles Henry Bartlett
Charles Henry Bartlett was a British track cyclist. He competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics where he won the gold medal in the 100 kilometres competition, completing the course in a time of 2 hours 41 minutes and 48.6 seconds.-References:...

 
Unknown
3 Gustaf Westerberg  Unknown
4 Octave Lapize
Octave Lapize
Octave Lapize was a French professional road racing cyclist and track cyclist.Most famous for winning the 1910 Tour de France and a bronze medal at the 1908 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 kilometres, he was a three-time winner of one-day classics, Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Brussels.In his first...

 
Unknown
5 Walter Andrews  Unknown
6 William Pett  Unknown
7-9 Guillaume Coeckelberg  Unknown
Charles Denny  Unknown
Harry Young  Unknown
Luigi Arizini  Did not finish
Charles Avrillon  Did not finish
H. Cunault  Did not finish
Bruno Götze  Did not finish
Pierre Hostein  Did not finish
R. Jolly  Did not finish
J. Madeleine  Did not finish
Guglielmo Malatesta  Did not finish
Hermann Martens
Hermann Martens
Hermann Martens was a German track cyclist who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.He won the silver medal together with his teammates Karl Neumer, Max Götze, and Rudolf Katzer in the team pursuit...

 
Did not finish
William Morton  Did not finish
Dorus Nijland  Did not finish
David Noon  Did not finish
Battista Parini  Did not finish
T. H. E. Passmore  Did not finish
Paul Schulze  Did not finish
Max Triebsch  Did not finish
Louis Weintz Did not finish

Final

Place Cyclist Nation Time
1 Charles Bartlett 2:41:48.6
2 Charles Denny Unknown
3 Octave Lapize Unknown
4 William Pett Unknown
5 Pierre Texier Unknown
6 Walter Andrews Unknown
7 D. C. Robertson Unknown
8 Sydney Bailey Unknown
J. H. Bishop Did not finish
François Bonnet Did not finish
Guillaume Coeckelberg Did not finish
Andrew Hansson Did not finish
G. C. Lutz Did not finish
Leon Meredith Did not finish
Harry Mussen Did not finish
Gustaf Westerberg Did not finish
Harry Young Did not finish

Sources

  • De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Cycling 1908". Accessed 7 April 2006. Available electronically at .
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